Word: martinisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Just between us," President Homer Martin of the United Automobile Workers of America asked reporters confidentially last week, "what does the public think?" One of those present answered, in a note to his editor: "Where there is public opinion, it is for Martin. He has a better pressagent, a pretty fair radio technique, and pearly teeth...
...Homer Martin had just bared his pearls in one of the most fantastic episodes in U. S. Labor history. In 1934-35 the onetime Baptist minister in Kansas City helped organize U. A. W. as an A. F. of L. union. In 1936 he took it into C. I. O. In 1937 he fought and won a bitter strike with General Motors, signed up that giant, and all motormakers except Henry Ford. In 1938, he quarreled with his co-founders and lieutenants, and his union of 375,000 men (third largest in C. I. O.) was saved from falling apart...
Kidnapper Rufus McCain, Robbers Henri Young and William Martin surrendered. It took a bullet through both legs to stop Kidnapper Dale Stamphill. For Arthur ("Doc") Barker, kidnapping associate of Alcatraz' notorious inmate Alvin ("Old Creepy") Karpis, it took a shot in the head and death...
...Keep the Embargo" meeting packed in 4,000, turned 2,000 away. Adroitly its sponsors presented not only Catholic churchmen as speakers but a Protestant onetime Ambassador to Spain, Irwin Laughlin, and a one time counsel of President Roosevelt (during his second term as Governor of New York State), Martin Conboy, who argued neutrality's case...
Died. Klaus Martin Einstein, 6, grandson of Dr. Albert Einstein, son of 34-year-old Hans Albert Einstein, hydraulic engineer in the U. S. Soil Conservation Service; of diphtheria, in Greenville...